Error: failed to retrieve repodata/filelists.xml.gz from rhel-x86_64-server-6 error was [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum You could try using –skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va –nofiles –nodigest

And trying the suggestions above did not help.

Background & Analysis:

Yum uses a cache directory to speed up its operations. Sometimes, the cache could become corrupted.

Solution:

1. Clean the cache directory as shown below:

sudo yum clean all

2. Rebuild the cache directory as shown below:

sudo yum makecache

3. Perform a yum update as shown below:

sudo yum update

Root Cause:

Corrupted yum cache directory

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